Species Ophicardelus ornatus (Férussac, 1821)

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• Auricella ornata Férussac, A.E.J.P.J.F. d'A. de 1821. Tableaux Systematiques des Animaux Mollusques: suivis d'un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles vivantes ou fossiles. Paris : Bertrand xlvii 114 pp. [Jan. 1821] [103].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost (possibly MNHP), Tasmania.
• Auricula australis Quoy, J.R.C & Gaimard, J.P. 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 2 320 pp. [169-170, pl. 13, figs. 34-38].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP no numbers 226 specimens, Western Port, VIC.
• Cremnobates cornea Swainson, W. 1855. On the characters of the several amphibious volutes allied to the genus Melampus. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 3: 42-46 [Jan. 1855] [43].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost (possibly BMNH), Oyster Cove, near Hobart, TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. 1926. Three Victorian species of Ophicardelus (Class Mollusca). Victorian Naturalist 42: 268-270 [268-269]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania: Tas. coast
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal salt marsh, detritivore.

 

General References

Roach, A.C., Hunt, A.M. & Ward, J.A. 1989. Factors related to the intra and inter-specific zonation of two pulmonate gastropods Salinator solida (Lamarck) and Ophicardelus ornatus (Ferussac). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 10: 59-67 (ecology, zonation)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)